I am working on my dissertation and I'm trying to locate the injury rate in academic labs as compared to industrial labs. I have fact-checked the statement about "researchers are 11 times more likely to get hurt in academic labs than in
an industrial lab" and have questioned the accuracy of that statement. I have since seen this statistic perpetuated in recent safety articles and reports about lab safety but no reference exists for the statistic.

I have not found Bureau of Labor Statistics data regarding injuries in academic labs. If there was, it would not include most public academic labs, nor would it include non-employee (student) injuries in labs. The closest data I have
found is incidence rates for colleges, universities and professional schools- which includes
all employees that works at a university. Furthermore, I have not been able to find the injury rate for "industrial" labs.. There are rates for chemical manufacturing but that would include everyone that works at a chemical manufacturer (not just labs).

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